You guys should really purchase the DVD if you enjoy it so much. I torrent the show just so I can watch it on-time and as soon as the episodes are available (I'm not American) - but I always support them and show my appreciation for the series by buying it on DVD.

Just had to post this because of all the silly jokes about downloading the show.

This is my routine for good shows as well. Though now we have HBO Nordic here, which I gladly pay. Usually the problem is that there is no way of giving them money, and torrent is the only way of acquiring it just after original airing.

I preordered it on amazon and they price matched it down to $30. On release day. For the bluray. Would recommend again to anyone who's a fan of the show. Ended up being cheaper than when I bought season two months after it's release.

According to Time Warner's Q4 2013 Earnings Release (can be found here, on the right sidebar, page 6 of the document) HBO pulled in $5 billion last year. I know it doesn't necessarily follow that someone shouldn't buy the DVDs. Maybe the DVDs are purchased to ensure that a particular show continues; but HBO's business model is more concerned with people buying and continuing subscriptions to their packages, not as much to DVD sales (though that may be subject to altering now that GoT has sold a ridiculous number of episodes after general release).

If the producers don't care, it is unlikely that the show will be cancelled for lack of viewership, and all that is happening is I am not giving any money to a company making billions of dollars a year, I wouldn't feel guilty not purchasing the series.

If someone wants to buy the DVDs, fine; if someone doesn't want to buy the DVDs, fine. That's how I see it. I recognize that a service is being provided that I enjoy, but the only real change in the world by someone not buying the DVDs is a slightly lower stock price for HBO.

I'm not meaning to be combative or tempestuous and I don't particularly want to start a lengthy argument over this; just my two cents. If someone can pay for the DVDs it is nice to have them, but sometimes people don't actually have $20 to spare required to do so.

The subtext is that Davos remains steadfast in his devotion to Stannis and his opposition to Melisandre. It is a metaphorical island that he can no longer escape from. Thus the island is shown to be Davos himself.

I did not, but if someone else indeed did post this a while back they have good taste. I simply found it on imgur and thought the lovely people of this thread would appreciate. At any rate because this awesome show attracts so many new people so frequently the mods allow reposts.